Marvel debuted three new series it has ordered for streaming service Disney Plus at D23 Expo: a live-action Ms. Marvel series, as well as two additional series based on Moon Knight and She-Hulk.

“That’s three new series coming to the MCU, that’s what Disney Plus is allowing us to do,” said president of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige on stage at the convention Friday.

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The Ms. Marvel series will be led by screenwriter and comedian Bisha K. Ali, most recently a staff writer on Hulu’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” She will serve as showrunner and write the series.

This iteration of Ms. Marvel is Pakistani American Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenager who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, and looks up to superheroes like Captain Marvel. According to Marvel, she has an “an Inhuman...